1636 



SECHIUM 



late are solitary or in pairs on a short pubescent axil- 

 lary pedicel. Corolla 5-lobed, green or cream-colored. 

 Stamens 3, united into a glabrous or glandular column. 

 Lvs. 4-6 in. across, cucumber-like, cordate - ovate and 

 5-7-angled, pointed, somewhat scabrous above. Ten- 

 drils opposite the lvs., :j-4-cleft. The plant grows 50 

 feet in warm clinuites. G.C. 18(;.i:.jl ; III. 24:470; 

 28:450. L. H. B. 



2281. Fruits of Sechium edule (> 

 SECURINEGA l LutiTl. x,r„r/^. liatc-ll. 



Deci.l '■ ,,.:,:..■ 



ally M,, .. 



axilhi.-N rlM^i.T- -r ^.-li.,,:' , .M:.: .;i|. i. 



species and the only om- jn > nhi 



It is fairly hardy at the- .\ni.iM \,i i. 



the tips of the young hiMiirhr- i. i 



forms a handsome round iuisl] .' i 



It seems to grow in any kind ni .i 



by seeds and by greenwood cutiii 



10 species in temperate and 

 America, Asia and Africa, als.i m ii,;li 

 none in N. America. FU. imi-. miiI, dnr. 

 cious in axillary, few-lM. j-y ni' - "i- -"lit 

 stamens usually 5, witli ;i ,> Inl.i il disk at 

 tillate fls. with entire .li-l. .unl :; 'J partf 

 3-lobfd dehi>.-,ni ,:,, 

 ramifldra. .1- M : ■ 

 Mey. J-'lihi.h'i 



. - ..!■ -olitary; sepals 5; 



i( (I disk at the base; pis- 



I :; 'J parted styles: fr. a 



-,-eded. 



.( suffrwticdsa, Fisch. & 



ill. Aciddtonramifldrus, 



: lvs. short-petiolcrt, oral 



the base, entire, bright "i- \ell"wi-li l-i-.cii. L-lal.n.ns. 

 thin, 1-2 in. long: staniinat.- iK. aliMin 1 ',, lines aei-M--, 

 in 5-10-fld. clusters; pistillate solitary: Ir. al.nut i.in - 

 fifth in. across, greenish. July, Aug. .'^. Siberia to 

 Amurland and Mongolia. 



S.Leutoppnis, Mvill.Arg., belongs to Fliiggea, a genus of 6 

 species distributed through the tropics of Asia. Africa and 

 Australia: it is chielly distinguislied from y<M-uriiu-i,'a iiy the 

 seeds. >vU"l. .-i-e .■ •,,>.■ ...I tl,,. •,.n(r,-, Is, ,,.,;„.,., fr ,s 



SEDGE. Consult Carex and Cyperiis. 



SfiDUM (Latin, sedes, to" sit: the plants fix them- 

 selve.s on rocks and walls). Crassulicece. Sedum is a 

 large group of flcsbv-Ieaved herbaceous plants, mostly 

 hardy :md liermnir,], he'ln.liTi- tli. Sfn„rrrn,i :ni,l T.ive 



forever. TIm ■! .■■■■■ m- ■:•! :■•!• r ■ . '■ 



genus iiii-l;! 

 yellow llo„, 1- 

 The r..liaL:e ,. 

 ably vtiried: t 

 entire or s( r 

 broad and Ibi 

 minute and i 

 erect and bus 



SEDUM 



ing barren shoots, terminated by dense rosettes, while 

 the flowering stems are erect and often furnished with 

 leaves of an entirely different shape. 



Sedum is a genus of about 120 species, all found in 

 the temperate and frigid regions of the northern hemi- 

 sphere except a solitary species in Peru. Herbs, rarely 

 shrubby at the base, glabrous or glandular-pubescent: 

 flowers in cymes: petals 4-5 (rarely 6-7); stamens 

 8-10 (rarely 12-14). The genus is closest to the House- 

 leek an.l other species of Sempervix uiu, but the floral 



low. There is also a good horticultural review iu Un. 

 27, pp. 314-316 (1885). 



Sedums are of the easiest culture. As a rule, they 

 prefer sandy soil, and are very averse to a wet position 

 in winter. They are standard plants for caritetiiig poor 

 and sandy waste places where few other things will 

 grow. The little yellow-Howered plant with pulpy foli- 

 age that spreads in nearly every eiiiK'tery is S, iliiiii nrri'. 

 Sedums are also ^rw i;j1 l;!...!;!. - in all r..rin- '.r reek- 



especially the I 



the species may help to solve the difficult problem of 

 carpeting the ground underneath the trees where the 



balconies and h 

 Sedum acre, how 

 is often the onl 

 Sedums are pl;i 

 against them are 

 and anybody cat 



tl together, it lias been thought best to t 

 lit types and to make the key as shaqdy 

 s possible instead of giving generalized 

 ns through which the plant lover may searcl 

 • distinguishing marks. 



